Highlights include a spine-tingling Simpson-Gaughan duo on Brother Can You Spare a Dime?, an acute version of a very quiet Bruce Springsteen song and a very exuberant,surprising, but utterly-logical treatment of Lakes of Ponchartrain.

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2205 THEME:details below, as per the original CD. This cut is also on these compilations:

Norma sings. Richard Thompson and Martin Carthy play acoustic guitars on the first song. Richard plays electric guitar on the second. Danny Thompson plays double bass on both. Joel Pescin plays tenor sax on a very tender version of The Very Thought of You.

Bowly was hugely popular through the 1930's. He died in the Blitz, in London, in 1941.

As he confesses in the CD booklet, for the song's purposes, Loudon has 'changed trains'; he and Paul shared a Boston-bound train, not one heading to Washington DC.

Nobel-prize-winning economist and Princeton University Professor Krugman is one of the USA's most prominent liberal commentators - on TV, as blogger, on radio, and as New York Times columnist. He predicted the USA's 'sub-prime' crisis which sparked the 'Global' Financial Crisis.

2310 CD CUT 4, 'THE LAKES OF PONCHARTRAIN'TRAD, ARR AND ADAPTED BY PAUL BRADY SONG-PROPER IS PUBLIC DOMAIN. THE ARR IS IMRO/MCPS PEE BEE PBMCD018 Available direct from the artist's 'shop' at www.paulbrady.comPAUL BRADY - 'YOU ARE WELCOME HERE KIND STRANGER'6: 42 Surely the most affecting of this song's countless versions - at least among the poignant treatments.

Brady's everything - voice, 3 ac guitars, 4 tin whistles, harmonium.

The song is probably set at the end of the American Civil War. It may well be in the persona of a Cuba-bound, Irish deserter from the Confederate Army. A lovely Creole girl shelters him from the alligators, but she stays true to her absent sailor lover.

NOTE:

If you want to own a CD of this classic 1978 LP, make sure you buy this version.This offers good sound on CD, for the first time.It also benefits its maker, for the first time.

The previously-available CD was a bootleg, poorly dubbed, off scratched vinyl

The composer's note:Glencalvie, in Sutherland, is one of these places that seems to hold the past. Croik Church in that area still has inscriptions on the windows from those people who were cleared from the land during the Highland Clearances.

The orignal Jamie Foyers was a song from the Napoleonic Wars, specifically The Peninsular War, fought on the Iberian peninsula. Ewan MacColl reworked it to memorialize two friends who had died fighting Franco's fascists in the Spanish Civil War.

2341 CD CUT 9, 'BANJO BILL'MARTIN SIMPSON TOPIC RECORDS LTD TOPIC TSCD584 In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM email: info@theplanetcompany.comwebsite: www.theplanetcompany.comworldwide: www.topicrecords.co.ukMARTIN SIMPSON - 'PURPOSE + GRACE 3: 15 Simpson sings and play deft ole-timey/mountain-style banjo. The song is based on what Banjo Bill Cornett said on the spoken cut of a home recording he made in 1958. It was finally issued 44 years later - 42 years after Cornett's death.

Simpson admires Cornett enormously. Simpson's extraordinary new version of Barbry Allen (aka Barbara Allen) is based on Cornett's.